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Year. 



To Germany. 



To Russia. 



1897 . 







573,337 



161,572 



1898 . 



1,077,296 



303,088 



1899 . 



714,230 



166,873 



1900 . 



769,126 



172,462 



1901 . 



998,240 



233,129 



1902 . 



1,049,502 



292,987 



1903 



794 711 



303,202 



1904 . 



1,095,683 



384,443 



1905 . 



1,057,315 



430,554 



1906 . 



1,025,886 



424,200 



The export to Norway and Sweden has declined considerably Trade with^ 

 owing to the absence of a large number of the Norwegian fish- Sweden, and 

 curing vessels from Shetland and Lochbroom during last year, the with Holland, 

 figures for 1906 and 1905 being 9283 and 74,720 barrels 

 respectively. 



The direct trade with Holland in cured herrings presents no 

 feature of interest. 



The export to America from Glasgow (Greenock district) 5^°^° 

 exceeded that of the preceding year by 1631 barrels, the total 

 reaching 69,396 barrels, of which 69,032 were sent chiefly to New 

 York, Philadelphia, and Boston, 349 to Canada, and 15 to South 

 America. A large quantity of preserved fish was also sent from 

 Glasgow to America, over 43,000 cases, averaging one cwt. each, 

 being exported. 



In his report on the trade of Liberia (West Africa) for 1906, Demand for 

 H.M. Consul at Monrovia remarks that " herrings packed in cases ^erfe? 8 111 

 is another article freely patronised by the natives. The principal 

 article of diet of the Kru tribes consists of rice and fish, and they 

 purchase locally large quantities of imported herrings and rice." 



II.— Cod, Ling, &c. 



The export of dried cod, ling, and hake shows a considerable Export of 

 improvement on the results for 1905, the figures for that year and Cured Cod, &c. 

 1906 being 52,824 and 71,268 cwts. respectively. 



Glasgow, Leith, and Lerwick contributed the bulk of the returns, District 

 the Continental Eoman Catholic countries taking 30,157 cwts., Ire-^^J and 

 land 29,974 cwts., and places out of Europe 11,137 cwts. The latter 

 consisted of 760 cwts. sent to Buenos Ayres and 915 cwts. to the 

 United States from Glasgow, while the export from Leith was sent 

 to the Colonies by way of Glasgow and Liverpool. The fish are hard 

 dried and put up in bales or boxes to hold a hundredweight, and 



